Latest Jane Goodall Quotes from Interviews

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• I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

  Jane Goodall

  Writing, Reflection, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Break Through, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I am obstinate and I will not give in.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving, Obstinate

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

  Jane Goodall

  Hard Work, Want, Achieve

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Thinking, Bird

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.

  Jane Goodall

  Chance, Good Chance, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

  Jane Goodall

  Successful, Acting, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Acting, Care

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people - how they feel, and what would be most meaningful for them.

  Jane Goodall

  Meaningful, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

  Jane Goodall

  Size, Educate, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

  Jane Goodall

  Agriculture, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

  Jane Goodall

  Men, Pay, Drink

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

  Jane Goodall

  Trying, Scientist, Naturalist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Mad, Supportive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Personality, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I want to change awareness.

  Jane Goodall

  Want, Awareness

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

  Jane Goodall

  Writing, Brain, Body

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, Choices, Making A Difference

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

  Jane Goodall

  Feelings, Looks, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

  Jane Goodall

  Smart, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Gang, Compare

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

  Jane Goodall

  Evil, Humans, Capable

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

  Jane Goodall

  Nails, Plans

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de